“Does this make sense to you?” She was extremely helpful and pulled no punches. I wanted to be carrying something in my head completely void of anything about the Oscar race or box office, and so, while I was flying around the world doing all that press, I began working.īy that time I’d worked with Nora Ephron quite a bit and I’d always send any idea to Nora. When I was done with Forrest Gump, all I was doing was promoting Philadelphia, surviving the trophy run season, and for the next six months promoting Forrest Gump. I wrote an 11-page treatment that I blew right through. Hanks: I started writing it in earnest when I was in South Carolina doing Forrest Gump. Wilson: His writing process is he writes, and then he gives you a complete script when he’s finished. The concept of a band that stays together long enough to make it through their first tour and breaks up, I thought it was just so real. White): I was always fascinated by Jan and Dean when I was growing up in high school. And then the world moved on to a new one-hit wonder. Rita Wilson (Marguerite, Tom Hanks’s wife): It started with a band having a one-hit wonder. During Apollo 13 we were talking about what’s next and he mentioned in very vague terms his own little project about a ‘60s garage band. After wrapping production on Apollo 13, due to be released that summer, he found time to write and develop his own project.Ĭhris Ellis (Phil Horace): That Thing You Do! had been Tom’s dream project for a good while. In the spring of 1995, Hanks was coming off consecutive Best Actor Oscars for his roles in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. “It’s just this unspooling of very recognizable moments that sparked joy.” Part 1: “It Wasn’t Like Anything Out There.”
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Much like the Beatles did for Hanks, the movie produced an uplifting sound that has continued to have resonance today. Most importantly, he found a pitch-perfect earworm for the movie’s titular one-hit wonder, written by the late Adam Schlesinger, which set the tone throughout the movie’s platinum-selling soundtrack. With a cast of relative unknowns-Tom Everett Scott as slick drummer Guy Patterson, Johnathon Schaech as lead singer Jimmy, Steve Zahn as goofball guitarist Lenny, Ethan Embry as the quiet bass player, and Liv Tyler as Jimmy’s girlfriend, Faye-Hanks captured dynamite performances and put a comedic, primary-colored spin on a familiar musical tale. Specifically, it follows the fictional Erie, Pennsylvania, rock band the Wonders, their meteoric rise, and their abrupt fall.
Three years later, Hanks made his screenwriting and directorial debut with That Thing You Do! Released 25 years ago this week, the movie remains an enduring, feel-good entertainment, supplying the period detail, joyful nostalgia, and musical spirit of 1964. “I had written before but never ended up with a cohesive screenplay that worked.” “This stuff has to go into a Crockpot for a long time,” Hanks says. Leaning on his knowledge of obscure 1960s bands and love for the decade’s stable of one-hit wonders, he merged the ideas together and began writing his long-gestating thoughts onto paper. In the fall of 1993, as Hanks was filming Forrest Gump, he finally began to explore that question. “That had definitely stuck in my craw because I thought, ‘What was that guy’s life like for a while?’” For three decades, Hanks couldn’t get the story out of his head. Instead of canceling the tour, manager Brian Epstein tapped English drummer Jimmie Nicol as a replacement for eight shows. Later that year, as the band embarked on a trip to Australia, Ringo Starr came down with tonsillitis. “It was a joyful sound,” says Hanks, who followed the band’s world tour from afar throughout 1964. Kennedy’s assassination, the world was a “dark, gray, and lonely place,” Hanks remembers, but he found an escape in the British band’s music as it filtered through his dad’s Volkswagen and sister’s clock radio.
Tom Hanks was only 7 years old when the Beatles made their American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.
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